During his visit to New Delhi, French President Emmanuel Macron signed an immigration law that tightens regulations for the naturalization and deportation of foreign citizens, the French authorities announced today.
On Thursday, January 25, the French Constitutional Council rejected more than a third of the original text of the draft law, which it considers inconsistent with the Constitution.
“Taking into account the decision of the Constitutional Court from January 25, the President of the Republic promulgates the law,” it is stated in the Official Gazette of the French authorities.
Macron signed the law during a visit to New Delhi between Thursday and Friday.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who is one of the key authors of the reforms, said after the Council’s decision that Macron would still sign the law.
He gathered all the prefects yesterday and ordered them to start implementing the law immediately after it was signed.
The law, which was approved by both houses of the French parliament on December 19 after extensive discussions, has caused great criticism in the public and among politicians.
The then Minister of Health Aurelien Rousseau resigned on December 20, while several regions in France where left-leaning politicians are in power announced that they would not implement parts of the new law, Srna news agency writes.
